New FMS match (U5b2b2)

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Alternated hypothesis

One origin I have been ignoring for my direct maternal line is the Erie Canal. The problem with census records is that they sometimes lie, in this case giving Indiana in 1816 as fact. Think of the film "How the West was Won", with all star cast. By 1830 New Englanders were moving west via the Erie Canal, and down the Allegheny River to the Ohio River, and Indiana, etc. My Cynthia A. Lee married in 1834, time enough to have arrived in Indiana by that route. I've been trying to find her ancestry via the huge Virginia Lee clan, but to no avail. Also, a New England origin would fit my HVR1+HVR2 that goes back to 1600s Massachusetts. Hmm...

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Is the famous Frenchman Lafayette in my tree? I keep searching for my direct maternal line, and usually have to erase any tentative line I come up with. My latest is a shaky vague guess. The problem is I am brick walled with Cynthia Anna Lee, born 1816 in Indiana. That is very early for Indiana, since the Indians were barely evicted by then. Maybe she was born in Ohio or elsewhere, This latest line I'm guessing at has to delete the Cynthia part, just leaving Anna Lee. Her dad would've been David Lee Jr. in this case. His dad was David Lee Sr., who married a French girl named Marie d'Ayen Noailles. I hope I got the spelling right, because if you are interested, you will Google her name. She claimed to be a cousin of Lafayette. But she would not have been my direct maternal ancestress. It's just interesting (before I erase that line and begin yet again).

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A newer hypothesis is strictly yankee. Although there is a definite a Lee connection (paternal), the wife's line seems to/ could be from a New York, and possibly New Jersey origin in colonial times. The Lee connection (marriage) would've happened in Ohio (or Parkersburg, WV) around the time of the Whiskey Rebellion.

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By my imperial decree, I changed my colonial brick wall direct maternal ancestress from Charity unknown to Cynthia Anna Lee. What kind of name is that? Lee is obviously Anglo-Saxon. But what is Cynthia Anna? Irish? Scotch? Huguenot French? She was born about 1816, possibly in Kentucky. Maybe I'm related to Robert E. Lee on her dad's side. Ha ha!

I notice that the tidewater Virginia Lee clan was founded by a Lee dude who arrived from Barbados in the 1600s. Some of the descendants obviously moved into Kentucky after Daniel Boone (my 1st cousin 6 times removed) opened up the Wilderness Road following the Revolutionary War.

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By my imperial decree, I changed my colonial brick wall direct maternal ancestress from Charity unknown to Cynthia Anna Lee. What kind of name is that? Lee is obviously Anglo-Saxon. But what is Cynthia Anna? Irish? Scotch? Huguenot French? She was born about 1816, possibly in Kentucky. Maybe I'm related to Robert E. Lee on her dad's side. Ha ha!

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Wheeldon versus Wheelan. I always assumed there was just misspelling in the records. Now I'm beginning to think that I don't have any Wheeldons in my tree. What does that mean? It means that whole big southern branch down there in the Carolinas and Kentucky is wrong; that is, I'm not connected to them. Nancy Wheelan married Henry Puckett in Indiana; not Nancy Wheeldon. Hmm... This is my direct maternal line, by the way.

On the other hand, I have plenty of (low strength) DNA matches to people with surname lists that point to my established tree. So I'm not going to delete my Falconbury line just yet.

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Wheeldon versus Wheelan. I always assumed there was just misspelling in the records. Now I'm beginning to think that I don't have any Wheeldons in my tree. What does that mean? It means that whole big southern branch down there in the Carolinas and Kentucky is wrong; that is, I'm not connected to them. Nancy Wheelan married Henry Puckett in Indiana; not Nancy Wheeldon. Hmm... This is my direct maternal line, by the way.

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Or maybe the apparently Norwegian, apparent siblings have more recent, non-Norwegian ancestry on their mother's side of the family? Dunno.

Yeah, I did an "in common with" after I wrote my above post, and it looks like there may be yet a different line for this X-match within my maternal side, such as in Pennsylvania. My maternal grandmother really has a complex ancestry going back to various colonial sources.

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Or maybe the apparently Norwegian, apparent siblings have more recent, non-Norwegian ancestry on their mother's side of the family? Dunno.

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I just want to toss in a comment abut a new X-match of mine. It is from Norway. A female there (email address) has an X-match (& FF match) to me. But her apparent brother, who also has an FF match to me, does not have an X-match to me. Now, the only Norwegian side of my makeup is on my father's side. How do I inherit an X-match from my father's side? The only other way I could conceivably get it is via my maternal side via a branch that goes back to the Delaware Swedes in colonial times.

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This Love family came into the South via South Carolina, assume Charleston. Then they appeared in Camden. From there fanning out to Chester County, and possibly Richmond County, NC. But entries are conflicting and vague. So I also refer to logical history of the region.

All or most of the leaf hints at Ancestry show this female of interest (my potential direct ancestress) as being born in Chester County, SC in 1740. After Googling the history of that county, that looks unlikely. Settlers didn't start moving into that wild corner until the early 1750s. But associated names obviously came down from Pennsylvania in the 1750s. So that's going to be my bet. People just mindlessly copy other peoples' matches without doing a wee bit of research themselves.

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I'm envious of that Bourbon-Medici connection above. I was looking mainly at one family tree here on FTDNA that cuts off before that point. But I can see that she is a good genealogist, and must know where that line leads. If I'm in this Love tree, which looks weakly possible, it is one generation upstream from the Love-Gaston line junction.

This Love family came into the South via South Carolina, assume Charleston. Then they appeared in Camden. From there fanning out to Chester County, and possibly Richmond County, NC. But entries are conflicting and vague. So I also refer to logical history of the region.

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I'm still poking around, looking for alternate possibilities regarding my direct maternal line. One surname that was in the Carolina area of interest is/was Love. Now it started out being just little people trying to get their feet on the ground. That love seems to go back to Scotland (Luiff) via Ulster via Pennsylvania. One line within it, Gaston, goes back to France and the Bourbons. I haven't gotten into that; maybe later. It looks like there's an aristocratic myth in everybody's family tree, ha ha!

I'm envious of that Bourbon-Medici connection above. I was looking mainly at one family tree here on FTDNA that cuts off before that point. But I can see that she is a good genealogist, and must know where that line leads. If I'm in this Love tree, which looks weakly possible, it is one generation upstream from the Love-Gaston line junction.

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I'm still poking around, looking for alternate possibilities regarding my direct maternal line. One surname that was in the Carolina area of interest is/was Love. Now it started out being just little people trying to get their feet on the ground. That love seems to go back to Scotland (Luiff) via Ulster via Pennsylvania. One line within it, Gaston, goes back to France and the Bourbons. I haven't gotten into that; maybe later. It looks like there's an aristocratic myth in everybody's family tree, ha ha!

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That ^ Odense connection was just a side game; isolated and therefore allowing mutations to take hold. A I said earlier, I had 3 or 4 HVR1 matches at SMGF that exactly matched mine. So those were probably from the main body of Jutes, who arrived in Kent a couple of centuries before William-the-Conqueror arrived. The Jutes cooperated and mingled/married with the ruling Saxons. So I could also have some sort of connections to the Saxons of pre-conqust England.